Introduction — Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications (DLARC) is a project of the Internet Archive. DLARC is growing to be a massive online library of the past and present of ham radio and related communications — including shortwave listening, pirate radio, amateur television, numbers stations, low-power FM, and networked communications.

DLARC is funded by a significant grant from Amateur Radio Digital Communications. You can see what we have so far at https://archive.org/details/dlarc 

Launched in late 2022, today the library offers more than 120,000 items, including amateur radio newsletters from around the world, podcasts and radio shows about radio, magazines, manuals and catalogs, archives of radio conferences, and more. 

Tax-deductible cash donations can be made at https://archive.org/donate/?origin=jssm-dlarc

General Items Sought — To fill this library we need:

• your donations of ham radio books, magazines, newsletters, catalogs, manuals, videotapes, etc. that Internet Archive will digitize

• your permission to include the ham radio content that you have created, such as podcasts, YouTube videos, blogs, etc.

People have contacted DLARC offering a a single item; others have offered file cabinets stuffed with material. Let us know what you have to offer: we will consider everything based on what the library already has and its relevance to radio and communications.

Specific Items Sought — Here's our work-in-progress list of some of the specific items that DLARC is currently seeking to fill gaps in the collection. Some of these are physical items (such as books and magazines), others are digital files (such as audio files or PDF newsletters.)

Hambrew Quarterly, published 1993-1997 by George De Grazio, WF0K (SK) got them!

New addition: CQ Magazine: the ZR article is obsolete already!  we have everything we need now, all the public domain issues are coming in!

NEW addition: AMSAT Amateur Satellite Report issues 189, 190, and 194+ (if those exist)

and all AMSAT Symposium CD-ROMs except 2014 and 2012

NEW addition: any missing issues of Jim Ericson's newsletter  “1750 Meters" AKA "Western Update”

NEW addition: National Amateur Radio Association (NARA) The Amateur Radio Communicator newsletter:

   any issues after v4n4 (July/August 1994) — if they exist

NEW addition: RCMA (Radio Communications Monitoring Association) Newsletter:

   pre-December 1979

   1986-06

   1987-02,03,05,06

   1988-01,04-12

   1989-01-11

   1990-03,05-12

   1991 and beyond...don't know when it ended

NEW addition: VHFer published by by Parks Electronics Laboratory

   need volumes 1, 2 and certain issues of volume 3

NEW addition: A5 The Amateur Television Magazine

   everything before v9n1 (Jan/Feb 1978)

   1983: v13n5

   1984: v14n3 v14n7 v14n9 v14n12 

NEW addition: Digital Digest newsletter by Tom Arvo, WA8DXD

 - v4 issues 3-6

 - All of volume 5

 - v6 issues 1-3

 - v7n1

NEW addition: FM ATLAS by Bruce F. Elving 

 - need 1-4, 6-8, 10-12, 14-15, 17

NEW addition: World Radio TV Handbook (WRTH)

 - need Volumes 1-19, volumes 22-30

NEW addition: AMRAD newsletter

   we have a few issues but are missing most

NEW addition: SERA Repeater Journal

   need those published before issue 3-4 (1972-1974),  5-2 (1976), 6-1 (1977), and 7-1 (1978), 19-3 (1990), and after 2008.

NEW addition: Packet Radio Temporary Notes that we lack, which include:

Press Jones books: Wirebook (original) and Wirebook II (here are the others)

RAIN Reports from the years 1992, 1998, 2000, and 2003 (audio, we'll take it in ANY format) 

Amateur Radio Newsline / Westlink Report episode numbers 1-961 and 1012-1799.

  (that 50-episode gap in the middle is 1996, which we have completely!)

220 Notes newsletters (Art Reis)

W5YI Report newsletters:

 - volumes 1-5

 - v14 issues 1-12 and 20 (1992)

 - v25 (2003) are there issues after issue 14? If so, we need them. They may not exist. 

432 MHz and Above EME Newsletter pre-1996 issues

144 MHz EME NewsLetter, pre-2015 issues

CQ VHF magazine issues:

   2000 January, July-December

   2001 all issues

   2002 winter

   2012 fall 

   2013 fall (if it exists?)

Radio Fun Magazine

   Issues 9, 10, and 11

   Issue 33 and higher, except 48 and 49. They are on their way to us!

IF there are issue numbers >51, we need those

Amateur Radio Trader:

   all issues

Anything from the Montreal (QC) Amateur Radio Club in the late 1970s relating to the development of the first Amateur Radio Packet Radio experiments, especially newsletters.

Anything from Ottawa (ON) Amateur Radio Club Packet Working Group relating to high speed Packet Radio, especially the “Packet Interface” (PI) card that the PWG developed, and any newsletters.

Anything from the Vancouver Amateur Digital Communications Group (VADCG), especially copies of their newsletter “the packet” after issue 10 (if they exist)

Anything from the Georgia Radio Amateur Packet Enthusiasts Society (GRAPES) regarding the WA4DSY / Heatherington 56k Packet Radio modem.

Any issues of the Texas Packet Radio Society (TPRS) Quarterly Report newsletter that we don't have.

Monitoring Times magazine:

    1982-all issues

    1983-all issues

    1984-all issues

    1985-all issues

    1986-01

    1986-02

    1986-03

    1986-04

    1986-05

    1986-08

    1986-10

    1987-01

    1987-02

    1987-04

    1987-06

    1987-08

    1987-10

    1987-12

    1991-11

    1994-03

    1994-06

    1998-08

TAPR CD-ROM and DVDs: we have TAPR Software Library 1996, 1997, 1998. ANY OTHER TAPR CD-ROMs would be awesome.

   In particular, we are looking for "29th Annual ARRL and TAPR Digital Communications Conference" DVDs. We have "Friday Disk 1" and need the others.

SSTV Today newsletters (we have just a couple of issues)

Exide News (or Exide Magazine? published by Electric Storage Battery Company) — any issues

Newsletter: "The Australian Packeteer” by Sydney Amateur Digital Communications Group in Sydney, Australia.

Newsletter: St. Louis Area Packet Radio Club SLAPR Protocol newsletter 1983-01 v2n1, and any in 1984 or after (if those exist)

Journal of College Radio — any issues we lack

Book: Radar Days by Bowen

Book: The World of Ham Radio, 1901-1950: A Social History by Richard A. Bartlett

Book: How to Build Hidden, Limited-Space Antennas That Work by Robert J. Traister

Book: Limited Space Shortwave Antenna Solutions by Frank Hughes

Book: Commodore 64 & 128 Programs for Amateur Radio & Electronics by Joe Carr

How To Contribute — If you have access to material that might be of interest to DLARC,  or questions about the project, contact the curator of DLARC, Kay Savetz by email: kay at archive.org

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